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Text Editor advice

I'm looking for a text editor that supports (individually) coloured characters/backgrounds, and different fonts, but doesn't start enforcing things such as page sizes, paragraphs and whatnot - basically what I want is a version of Notepad that supports colour. Before someone gets confused, I'm not talking about syntax highlighting - as far as I can see, things like Notepad Plus and Crimson Editor only support that, and won't let me colour text myself.

Sublime Text is a syntax colorer (and, frankly, you don't really need to spend money to get what it does - there are loads of free editors which do the same job) - I suspect the OP wants to color text ala HTML (this box) which means he needs a (surprise surprise) HTML editor of some sort.

I'd recommend Aptana Studio (http://www.aptana.com/) and gedit for Windows (http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/). I use them both religiously. What you're looking for is something that can save and view files with some sort of XHTML formatting. I don't know of anything that can do that (other than Word or OpenOffice) without document formatting. Thus, we arrive back at my original conclusion: Aptana and gedit. Hope that works for you.

Sublime Text is a syntax colorer (and, frankly, you don't really need to spend money to get what it does - there are loads of free editors which do the same job) - I suspect the OP wants to color text ala HTML (this box) which means he needs a (surprise surprise) HTML editor of some sort.

Oh bloody hell, you're right - off to play with HTML I go!

To answer a couple of suggestions:
Open Office/Libre Office - I found this doing some very strange things with monospaced fonts (i.e. not monospacing them, a fairly annoying "feature"), and not listing all the fonts I have installed.

Wordpad - Yet again, more faffing about with fonts not working (in this case, I select the font but the font isn't used/characters display wrongly. Sigh.)

To answer a couple of suggestions:
Open Office/Libre Office - I found this doing some very strange things with monospaced fonts (i.e. not monospacing them, a fairly annoying "feature"), and not listing all the fonts I have installed.

Wordpad - Yet again, more faffing about with fonts not working (in this case, I select the font but the font isn't used/characters display wrongly. Sigh.)

Sometimes you need to restart the program in order for it to scan for new fonts. I know GIMP has a button to refresh the font window so you can update on the fly, but I doubt OpenOffice has that feature. Also make sure they're .ttf (TrueType Fonts). If you need any more fonts, (because some aren't working or some other crap) check out http://dafont.com/.

Here if you need any more questions about HTML or OpenOffice answered.

Sublime Text is a syntax colorer (and, frankly, you don't really need to spend money to get what it does - there are loads of free editors which do the same job) - I suspect the OP wants to color text ala HTML (this box) which means he needs a (surprise surprise) HTML editor of some sort.

Doesn't SublimeText do HTML highlighting/coloring? I thought it did... (disclaimer: And SublimeText is...sublime)